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Jean turned the piano into a human voice, waking them out of sodden sleep. Just listening was living. Life filtered through tired bodies, bent backs. Heads lifted. Fear and worry fled from their eyes. For an instant, they breathed in a fullness of life denied them in life.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Anzia Yezierska
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Born:
October 29, 1880
Died:
November 21, 1970
(aged 90)
Bio:
Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire.
Known for:
Bread Givers (1925)
Hungry Hearts (1920)
Arrogant beggar (1927)
How I Found America
Red ribbon on a white horse (1950)
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